Former Honeywell executive to lead low-power wireless lighting producer

Jack Bolick, former president of Honeywell Process Solutions , has been named CEO of Adura Technologies , a provider of wireless lighting systems for buildings.Adura Technologies is a smart grid technology venture that applies low-power wireless mesh networking to the lighting market. According to Adura,

Adura offers PDF on green lighting.

lighting accounts for 38% of U.S. electricity consumption—the single largest contributor to U.S. carbon emissions. Lighting is also one of the few electrical loads that, according to Adura, provides “instantaneous, pure subtractive demand reduction to overtaxed electrical grids.”Adura Technologies was founded in 2004 via research grants provided by the California Energy Commission's Public Interest Energy Research (PIER) grant program. Adura is currently serving customers in the commercial, industrial, and institutional building sectors.Also see, from Control Engineering :

Annual Salary Survey

Before the calendar turned, 2016 already had the makings of a pivotal year for manufacturing, and for the world.

There were the big events for the year, including the United States as Partner Country at Hannover Messe in April and the 2016 International Manufacturing Technology Show in Chicago in September. There's also the matter of the U.S. presidential elections in November, which promise to shape policy in manufacturing for years to come.

But the year started with global economic turmoil, as a slowdown in Chinese manufacturing triggered a worldwide stock hiccup that sent values plummeting. The continued plunge in world oil prices has resulted in a slowdown in exploration and, by extension, the manufacture of exploration equipment.